>> ^Bloocut:

While the Window and Door Association is reportedly "studying the phenomenon" teams of lawyers are poised at the ready toasting the all-powerful balm our star provides their next 20 years of summer homes, cocaine, and fine cuisine.


I'm just amazed that there's a Window and Door Association.

Aaaah! It's the Armored Scorpion of Death from Mitchell and Webb!

http://videosift.com/video/Mitchel-and-Webb-The-Giant-Death-Ray

Your video, Death Ray From Space -- 5 Second Films, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, the Tesla car is a big disappointment. With a name like that it absolutely needs a death-ray to come standard.

Your video, Mitchel and Webb: The Giant Death Ray, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Obama has a death panel?
is that like the death star?
or a death ray?

What's your beef with socialized medicine? Tell us *why* taxpayer-funded medical care is wrong.

My beef with social medicine is the same as my beef with central planning in general. Central planning is wasteful, prone to corruption, and inefficient. Government tries to 'plan' things that are inherently unplannable. In the process it screws up far more than it gets right. Even a broken clock can be right twice a day, but by and large the best way for government to improve the lives of others is to encourage freedom based, private activity then to get the smack out of the way.

Government is not there to 'help' people. Government is there to perpetuate itself. It will dribble out subsistence help to political causes it favors and thinks are likely to increase its power.

Why do you hate healthy people? Why do you fight for a sicker America? Why do you hate puppies?

(1) Because they make things crowded when I go shopping. (2) Because it furthers my plans for world domination. (3) I don't hate them, they make excellent fuel for my death-ray.

With a name like Tesla Motors, I'm kinda disappointed it doesn't come with a death-ray.

Phew! More time to put the finishing touches on my death ray before the Sift Up!

I'm not sure who Joe is, but I hope he doesn't know that you have a diamond now, because you finally have the last piece of your Kill-Joe-Laser-Death-Ray. Please think of your fellow Sifters as you kill Joe and then take over the world.

Congratulations!

It is exactly evolution. Birds will adapt to avoiding cars over generations by means of natural selection. This one is one of the many that are killed to make way for those that do avoid cars.

I believe you're thinking about UN-natural selection, where WE choose who survives to cultivate a certain behavior or biological state: see domesticated animals. This is not such a case.

>> ^mani:
well, I am sorry, its not evolution because we are inserting a totally foreign new way of killing animals... I have always had a problem with this, and I believe many well considered people do. Its like aliens putting a death ray on you... is that evolution? didn't think so. Its a genocidal massacre, its murder justified by the inevitable; our enormous quality of life that has no space for the intricate fabric that makes nature.
I guess that is why its not eia...

well, I am sorry, its not evolution because we are inserting a totally foreign new way of killing animals... I have always had a problem with this, and I believe many well considered people do. Its like aliens putting a death ray on you... is that evolution? didn't think so. Its a genocidal massacre, its murder justified by the inevitable; our enormous quality of life that has no space for the intricate fabric that makes nature.

I guess that is why its not eia...

Looks like an optical effect, not an aurora.

The Tunguska incident was a meteor, not Tesla's alleged "death ray". It's scientifically absurd. Whatever pulse supposedly sent by Tesla would have had to travel through thousands of miles of rock, dissipating most of its energy and spreading out, before getting anywhere near Tunguska.

Tesla made some important inventions when he was younger, but spent his later life playing around with variations on Van de Graaf generators and making wildly exaggerated claims about their destructive potential, which were overhyped by the press.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
http://www.louthleader.co.uk/news/More-earthquake-light-sightings-.3864580.jp
http://inamidst.com/lights/earthquake



"It is perfectly practicable to transmit electrical energy without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible, and have described it in my technical publications, among which I may refer to my patent 1,119,732 recently granted."
- Tesla


"t's 7:17 AM on the morning of June 30, 1908, the exact moment when Nikoli Tesla is testing his "Death Ray" by aiming his beam towards the Arctic Cirle where he hopes Admiral Peary will see a visual display in the sky.

In the small Siberian village of Tunguska, herders of Reindeer are awoken by a huge ball of light, followed by an enormous explosion."
- http://www.viewzone.com/tesla.tunguska.html



"However, he did hear about the unexplainable event in Tunguska, and was thankful no one was killed, as it was clear to him that his death ray had overshot. He then dismantled his machine, as he felt it was too dangerous to keep it."
- New Scientist October 2002



"On 31 March, 1980, anomalous EM emissions were recorded thirty minutes before a deep-focus (depth = 480 km) magnitude 7 earthquake 250 km from an observatory near Tokyo. These emissions were widely-separated at 10 Hz and 81 kHz. Other similar emissions were recorded for a magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Iran, 1200 km from the epicentre, at 27 kHz and 1.63 MHz. Other examples of such emissions have also been reported."
- Chris A. Rutkowski "The Tectonic Strain Theory of Geophysical Luminosities"

There's only one way to prove it and that's to do it! Time to gather up all my old phones...

There are loads of other clips on youtube of this effect...


In reply to this comment by theaceofclubz:
A microwave can range between 500-1000 watts and is specifically designed to transfer as much energy as possible onto a target. It still takes minutes to make a kernel pop. These cell phones are making it happen in about 5 seconds using antennas. They would practically have to be alien death rays for that to be possible.
In reply to this comment by Irishman:
The supernerd hasn't taken the amplitude increase that occurs between waves of the same frequency into account. The amplitude increase can be as much as ten-fold for most standing wave (harmonic) solutions...

I'm pretty certain that this video is geniune... which is a bit scary

In reply to this comment by theaceofclubz:
Choggie's insightful analysis aside, a supernerd at http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=423337 has already applied the science required to debunk it - "Popcorn pops because the water in it turns to steam and a kernel is about 14% water. So, if we assume a kernel of popcorn weighs 1 gram, it has 0.13 grams of water. Heat that water from 30�C to 100�C would take:

(0.14g)*(100�C-3 to turn the water to steam requires he latent heat of vaporization, which is 2259J/g.

2259J*0.14g= 316J for a total of 316J 41J = 357J.

Wattage = Joules/seconds. If it took about 5 seconds to turn the water in the popcorn kernel to steam, then the wattage required was:

357J/5sec = 71W assuming all power from the cell phone transmitter went into the kernel.

Cell phones typically have 0.75W-1W transmitters in them. With a 1W transmitter, it would take,

334J/1W = 334secs, if all power is transfered to the kernel.

Conclusion: since the corn is popping in 5 seconds... completely fake.

edit - as pointed out, corn kernels weigh about 0.25g and there are 4 phones which could be up to 2W each. Therefore, the energy hitting the corn could be 16 times greater. But the other assumption (that all the power is focussed into the water content of just 1 kernel) is most likely wrong by a factor of 100 or more." - NOBODY PANIC